How reasonable is it to expect a "good" fill in New England?

[oceancurrent]

Paul jumped voluntarily in the middle of the target field. So, let's see him dodge a few bullets (just for the fun of it)

Bahaha [evil laugh]. I guess, I am after all the devil in disguise having fun with ye, mortals



But seriously... Paul is a good man and PG Dive is the most customer-friendly store in Boston. The prices are the best and they know how to make you feel part of the family. Not to mention that they were (and to my knowledge still are) the first in Boston to offer free air to all. They are doing a great job at keeping a higher level of service than most other place, which I am sure you will also see reflected in their good fills. Keep up the good work!

This said, I am taking countryboy's advise and bringing a gauge with me from now on. If I don't need all the air, I will let the op know (I do anyways - "Don't worry about the mix. I don't need the tank all the way full either - it's for classroom use only.")

 

[Rusty65]

i get my tanks filled at cape ann divers. nevel had less than 3000psi. no need to leave the tanks over.

 

[MSilvia]

I stopped getting my fills at CAD after they made a buddy scrape the nitrox sticker off his tank before they'd give him an air fill (although I'll grant that big green Nitrox stickers are dumb). Apparently, EAN21 isn't nitrox on Cape Ann.
Between that and the high price, it's one of my last choices for fills... even if they usually are pretty full.

 

[mstudley]

i get my tanks filled at cape ann divers. nevel had less than 3000psi. no need to leave the tanks over.

For their prices they had better be filling the tanks with magic air. I love their charters but I never get my tanks filled there.

 

[Soggy]

For their prices they had better be filling the tanks with magic air. I love their charters but I never get my tanks filled there.

I never get fills there. I did once when we were desperate...I was up there with a buddy who had a tank with a nitrox wrap on them...not an O2 clean VIP sticker...a nitrox wrap (which means *nothing* except there might have been something other than air in there at one time)...and they wouldn't fill the tank until every last piece of that wrap was physically scraped off the tank.

 

[Diesel298]

i have costom mix stickers on my tanks
they wont fill them

i dont get it?

 

[Soggy]

i have costom mix stickers on my tanks
they wont fill them

i dont get it?

Neither do I....Those bumper stickers don't mean anything. The only thing that matters is the analysis sticker and whether or not the tank is O2 cleaned.

 

[spectrum]

i get my tanks filled at cape ann divers. nevel had less than 3000psi. no need to leave the tanks over.

That's nice but what is the pressure rating of your cylinders?

 

[oceancurrent]

This is funny! :lol: This is not the first time I hear stories about CAD (and others) scraping nitrox stickers. When people ask me why I don't have all the proper Nitrox stickers on my tanks, I have to give them a rather awkward explanation that it's not practical to keep dedicated tanks in New England and that not all stores would fill tanks, which have nitrox labels. Even more, some fill station ops are completely ignorant of what Nitrox is. I once had a divestore employee dump 2000 PSI of good Nitrox from my tanks and fill them with air because he believed it were illegal to top off tanks contaning Nitrox with air. :bonk:

So when I have some Nitrox left over in my tanks (esp over 1000 PSI) and I want an air fill, I don't like dumping the Nitrox out. I could simply remove the Yellow tape from the tank, but I leave it on for the benefit of the fill station op - so he doesn't unknowingly equalize the Nitrox tanks against somebody else's empty tank. I keep an O2 analyzer at home, so determining the new tanks content is not an issue

 

[Soggy]

This is funny! :lol: This is not the first time I hear stories about CAD (and others) scraping nitrox stickers. When people ask me why I don't have all the proper Nitrox stickers on my tanks, I have to give them a rather awkward explanation that it's not practical to keep dedicated tanks in New England and that not all stores would fill tanks, which have nitrox labels.

More importantly, the stickers tell you nothing about the contents of the tank. They are 100% useless. All they tell someone is that there might be something other than air in that tank, but that should always be the assumption for a tank that doesn't belong to you. Additionally, they cause corrosion and need to be replaced at every VIP.